by marleen | Mar 1, 2022 | Monthly Musings
You know that period right between the midst of winter and the start of spring? I used to hate it. It felt like it was out of proportionally long, beating any other season in length and challenges on the farm. I realize now it is all about how that times gets... 
by marleen | Apr 20, 2021 | Monthly Musings
When I think about spring here at the farm, I think about cuddling the softest lambs, the peepers singing their songs in the wetlands and the joy of watching the land green up after a long winter. It’s all that, it really is. But reality often times looks more... 
by marleen | Feb 13, 2021 | Monthly Musings
Oh January.. January at the farm is a month of rest before we start preparing for lambing and kidding, when all animals linger around their barns and shelters and everyone stays put where they are supposed to be. It is curious how the months that are... 
by marleen | Dec 30, 2020 | Monthly Musings
December 2020.. Christmas just passed. Our most thoughtful 80-something year old neighbors gave our oldest boy a telescope. A gift so appropriate and well chosen for our star struck little boy, as well as so meaningful; a tool to help us see the light that... 
by marleen | Nov 16, 2020 | Monthly Musings
There is no time a year that is more generous, abundant and overwhelming than the fall. The garden explodes (and thus does our kitchen), the sheep and goat get eager to eat all they can before winter (naturally, so do I) and nature slows down and seems to long for a... 
by marleen | Sep 6, 2020 | Monthly Musings
August is the time of year in which it can feel like things aren’t lining up. We’re still in the midst of hot and sweaty, moving animals daily, getting buried in vegetables and fruits from the garden and orchard, managing grass, milking twice a day and all that hot... 